Microsoft Office should be freaking FREE. This is bullcrap that I.

[Emmy]

All I wanted to do was to save my christmas list so that i could click on the
links directly so that there was no copying and pasting stuff everywhere.
Not only couldn't I do that, I had to install the 'trial version' which i
could ONLY open things. NOT save them or do anything else. I'm taking -the
most boring class ever- on microsoft office programming, i know just about
everything there is to know about operating word and excel at the moment. In
past situations, (around '98-ish) I never had to PAY for this. it CAME with
buying a $1,500 *MICROSOFT* computer. You people don't have enough money as
it is, you have to charge every little thing we do, huh? I am VERY displeased
with this and i hope i made at least one of you people up there, high in the
ranks, with millions of dollars pouring out your fat, greedy little hands and
consider letting me save my christmas list as a word document, after my house
was destroyed in the past hurricanes (I convienently live right smack dab in
the middle of Port Charlotte, FL), after i had broke my collar bone playing
soccer, after my car was wrecked after FEMA screwed up our temporary roof and
it FELL ON MY CAR so I don't go insane and take a baseball bat to my
Microsoft computer, and end up regretting I ever did business with this
godforsaken company. GRR.

 

[Raymond J. Johnson Jr.]

All I wanted to do was to save my christmas list so that i could click on the
links directly so that there was no copying and pasting stuff everywhere.
Not only couldn't I do that, I had to install the 'trial version' which i
could ONLY open things. NOT save them or do anything else. I'm taking -the
most boring class ever- on microsoft office programming, i know just about
everything there is to know about operating word and excel at the moment. In
past situations, (around '98-ish) I never had to PAY for this. it CAME with
buying a $1,500 *MICROSOFT* computer. You people don't have enough money as
it is, you have to charge every little thing we do, huh? I am VERY displeased
with this and i hope i made at least one of you people up there, high in the
ranks, with millions of dollars pouring out your fat, greedy little hands and
consider letting me save my christmas list as a word document, after my house
was destroyed in the past hurricanes (I convienently live right smack dab in
the middle of Port Charlotte, FL), after i had broke my collar bone playing
soccer, after my car was wrecked after FEMA screwed up our temporary roof and
it FELL ON MY CAR so I don't go insane and take a baseball bat to my
Microsoft computer, and end up regretting I ever did business with this
godforsaken company. GRR.

Congratulations on one of the stupidest rants ever published on Usenet.
Microsoft doesn't make or sell computers. MS Office products have never
been free. If Office applications were bundled with a computer you
bought, then you *did* pay for them, albeit not directly. You play
soccer and choose to live in the path of hurricanes. Neither is a very
smart thing to do, as you've discovered.

 

[Beth Melton]

You need to activate the trial version before you can use it.

Also, those who claim they 'know everything about Word and Excel'
actually know very little. The more you know about these applications
the more you realize what you don't know.

btw, your rant has fallen on deaf ears - Microsoft doesn't frequent
these newsgroups.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Oh, and to just pile on, since this is the season, Microsoft has never made
computers, so you have again missed the clue boat.

Oh, and when you are willing to work for free or give away the fruit of your
labor for free... nah, I didn't think so.


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Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
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After furious head scratching, Emmy asked:

| All I wanted to do was to save my christmas list so that i could
| click on the links directly so that there was no copying and pasting
| stuff everywhere. Not only couldn't I do that, I had to install the
| 'trial version' which i could ONLY open things. NOT save them or do
| anything else. I'm taking -the most boring class ever- on microsoft
| office programming, i know just about everything there is to know
| about operating word and excel at the moment. In past situations,
| (around '98-ish) I never had to PAY for this. it CAME with buying a
| $1,500 *MICROSOFT* computer. You people don't have enough money as it
| is, you have to charge every little thing we do, huh? I am VERY
| displeased with this and i hope i made at least one of you people up
| there, high in the ranks, with millions of dollars pouring out your
| fat, greedy little hands and consider letting me save my christmas
| list as a word document, after my house was destroyed in the past
| hurricanes (I convienently live right smack dab in the middle of Port
| Charlotte, FL), after i had broke my collar bone playing soccer,
| after my car was wrecked after FEMA screwed up our temporary roof and
| it FELL ON MY CAR so I don't go insane and take a baseball bat to my
| Microsoft computer, and end up regretting I ever did business with
| this godforsaken company. GRR.

 

[wjg]

There is no reason to be using MS Office's Word or Excel. You should use
Openoffice which is free - it does basically everything that a home user
would ever need to do.

You should be concentrating, if you can, on learning Linux and the languages
used to program open source programs like OpenOffice (free at
openoffice.org). That is the wave of the future. Government after
government - are dropping Microsoft's operating system and converting to
Linux and saving tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

When you buy a Microsoft product, you really are only paying Microsoft to be
one or two steps ahead of the "opensource" programmers. And each dollar you
give MS - only encourages these "opensource" programmers to keep going.

 

[Mike Hall]

Troll #2..

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

I hereby declare fuckwit season well and truly open!

All I wanted to do was to save my christmas list so that i could
click on the links directly so that there was no copying and pasting
stuff everywhere.

Did you, dear, that's nice. So, how many imaginary friends do you have?

Not only couldn't I do that,

Of course you couldn't dear, if you didn't have Office installed.

I had to install the

'trial version' which i could ONLY open things.

Er the trial will function fully for 60 (or is it 120?) days. Therefore, it
must have been already installed and the trial expired.


NOT save them or do

anything else. I'm taking -the most boring class ever- on microsoft
office programming, i know just about everything there is to know
about operating word and excel at the moment.

No, you have made it blatantly obvious that my five-year-old neigbour knows
more about anything than you do!

In past situations,

(around '98-ish) I never had to PAY for this.

Yes, you fuckwitted moron, you did. It was included in the price of the
system.

it CAME with buying a

$1,500 *MICROSOFT* computer.

A Microsoft computer, eh? Well, I contacted my local Microsoft subsidiary
and they assured me that they don't build computers - and have no plans to
start doing so.. But if you insist that the manufacturer's name on the tower
and/or monitor, or laptop, is 'Microsoft', then I guess you're right. I
mean, what would MS know about their own products?!

You people don't have enough money as it

is,

Sadly I don't. I am on disability.


you have to charge every little thing we do, huh? I

It's called 'business', toots, - wake up and smell the java. Let me give you
an analogy. Say you purchased a new stereo system, would you demand that the
major record labels gave you CDs for free because they had too much money?!



am VERY

displeased with this and i hope i made at least one of you people up
there, high in the ranks, with millions of dollars pouring out your
fat, greedy little hands and consider letting me save my christmas
list as a word document,

It's not MS's fault you let the *TRIAL* expire is it?! For someone who
claims to "know everything there is to know about Word and Excel" you're
sure as **** not very smart...


after my house was destroyed in the past

hurricanes (I convienently live right smack dab in the middle of Port
Charlotte, FL),

You chose to live in the middle of a hurricane zone - why should MS be
responsible for that? If you don't like living there, *MOVE*. I would have
thought that someone "who knows everything there is to know about Word and
Excel" could have figured that out!


after i had broke my collar bone playing soccer,

Playing football is a high risk activity - it's not MS's fault if you play
without being aware of those risks, now is it?!

after my car was wrecked after FEMA screwed up our temporary roof and
it FELL ON MY CAR so I don't go insane and take a baseball bat to my
Microsoft computer, and end up regretting I ever did business with
this godforsaken company. GRR.

I'd love to see a photo of this "Microsoft computer" - as it's the only one
in existence. If I were you I'd sell it, you'd have enough money to pay for
everything - probably for the rest of your life!